A Brief Guide to Smart Thinking

Informationen zum Autor JAMES M. RUSSELL has a philosophy degree from the University of Cambridge, a post-graduate qualification in critical theory, and has taught at the Open University in the UK. He currently works as director of a media-related business. He is the author of Brief Guides to Philosophical Classics, Spiritual Classics and Business Classics. He lives in north London with his wife, daughter and two cats. Klappentext From Zeno's Paradoxes to contemporary bestseller Freakonomics's exploration of 'the hidden side of everything', a concise and insightful journey through over 70 of the most influential smart-thinking books ever published This very readable guide examines the crème de la crème of smart-thinking books, including thought-provoking classics on psychology, mindfulness, rationality, the brain, mathematical and economic thought and practical philosophy. Included are books that focus on self-improvement as well as fascinating accounts of how the mind works. The tour starts as far back as the Epictetus classic TheEnchiridion and Bertrand Russell's charming TheABC of Relativity, before proceeding through more recent bestsellers such as Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking and on into the digital era with titles such as The Shallows and Big Data. The chronological arrangement draws attention to some of the interesting connections between the books and the way the genre has developed over time. A 'speed read' for each book delivers a bite-sized impression of what the writer is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of each book.An accessible but entertaining guide to seventy essential smart-thinking titles. Zusammenfassung Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each book is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question. The titles covered include thought-provoking classics on psychology, mindfulness, rationality, the brain, mathematical and economic thought and practical philosophy. The selection includes books about self-improvement as well as historically interesting accounts of how the mind works. Titles included go back as far as the Epictetus classic The Enchiridion and Bertrand Russell's charming The ABC of Relativity , and proceed through classics such as Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking and into the digital era with titles such as The Shallows and Big Data . The books are arranged chronologically, which draws attention to some of the interesting juxtapositions and connections between them. Some of the titles included are: Freakonomics , by Steven D. Levitt; Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking , by Malcolm Gladwell; Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , by Yuval Noah Harari; The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload , by Daniel J. Levitin; The Descent of Man , by Grayson Perry; How the Mind Works , by Steven Pinker; Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do , by Matthew Syed; We Should All Be Feminists , by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies , by Jared Diamond; The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable , by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; Man's Search for Meaning , by Viktor E. Frankl; The News: A User's Manual , by Alain de Botton; Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking , by Richard E. Nisbett; The ABC of Relativity , by Bertrand Russell; The Psychopath Test , by Jon Ronson; The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life , by Michael Puett; A Brief History of Time , by Stephen Hawking; Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives ...

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From Zeno's Paradoxes to contemporary bestseller Freakonomics's exploration of 'the hidden side of everything', a concise and insightful journey through over 70 of the most influential smart-thinking books ever published

This very readable guide examines the crème de la crème of smart-thinking books, including thought-provoking classics on psychology, mindfulness, rationality, the brain, mathematical and economic thought and practical philosophy.

Included are books that focus on self-improvement as well as fascinating accounts of how the mind works. The tour starts as far back as the Epictetus classic The**Enchiridion and Bertrand Russell's charming The**ABC of Relativity, before proceeding through more recent bestsellers such as Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking and on into the digital era with titles such as The Shallows and Big Data. The chronological arrangement draws attention to some of the interesting connections between the books and the way the genre has developed over time.

A 'speed read' for each book delivers a bite-sized impression of what the writer is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of each book.

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An accessible but entertaining guide to seventy essential smart-thinking titles.